[solved] Gnome-terminal not present in applications

San2ban · 2010-09-12 15:15:41

Dear Archers

I installed only 'GNOME'. changed the inittab file, booted into gnome. I do not find the terminal/console. I have to load gnome-extra and many other stuff. Without terminal, My hands are tied. Pl. help me to get the terminal / console log-in, or tell me fow to get at the /etc/inittab file, so that I can boot into id3, instead of id5

Thanks to hokash and all of you

Last edited by San2ban (2010-09-13 17:06:08)

hokasch · 2010-09-12 15:22:13

You can switch to another tty with ctrl-alt-Fx. Or use xterm, it gets installed with xorg group.

San2ban · 2010-09-12 15:28:49

Earlier, I tried to switch to another tty with ctrl+alt+Fx. Blank screen appears. No login prompt

I have not tried xterm. will try and report.

Thanks to all of you on these forums, I am able to dual boot and solve my problems

karol · 2010-09-12 15:31:21

San2ban wrote:

Earlier, I tried to switch to another tty with ctrl+alt+Fx. Blank screen appears. No login prompt
I have not tried xterm. will try and report.
Thanks to all of you on these forums, I am able to dual boot and solve my problems

If x = 1-6 you should see a prompt. If you don't, you may have misconfigured something or you have a video driver problem.

wonder · 2010-09-12 15:54:48

San2ban wrote:

Dear Archers
I installed only 'GNOME'. changed the inittab file, booted into gnome. I do not find the terminal/console. I have to load gnome-extra and many other stuff. Without terminal, My hands are tied. Pl. help me to get the terminal / console log-in, or tell me fow to get at the /etc/inittab file, so that I can boot into id3, instead of id5

ctrl+alt+f1, pacman -S gnome-terminal

with this occasion i would add gnome-terminal in gnome group

Last edited by wonder (2010-09-12 16:01:08)

hokasch · 2010-09-12 15:58:22

and one more way: press "e" on grub screen to edit the entry and add "single" (or 1) to the kernel line to boot into single user mode

San2ban · 2010-09-13 15:37:03

hokash
Many thanks. Your suggestion to use the "xterm' was helpful. First loaded terminal.

Mine is a Dial-up connection. Terribly slow

Earlier, pacman used to download from where it left, in case of interruption. But now, it says "resuming of download ...pkg not possible, starting over" and begins from first.

Evolution is around 25MB. When 95% download was completed, it said startng over.

Have to change to broadband. (No telephone land line, without which broadband is not possible here)

Thank you all

Arch Linux

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[solved] Gnome-terminal not present in applications

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